John Kerry actually said...

"And I would remind everybody here that this comes into the discretionary portion of the Federal budget, which took $1 trillion worth of cuts over the course of the last few weeks."

"I think it would be, obviously, a different kind of thing from the hearing, but I think a very important point of communication."

"So the answer is we can. Yes, we could roll over."

"We certainly recognize the difficult budget climate you face in Washington these days, but the consequence of not funding A-Sea monitoring next year will be a collapse of the sector system and a whole..."